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| 2 | 2 | | 118THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 1437 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To establish a partnership program to assist the military forces of partner |
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| 6 | 6 | | countries in developing and maintaining military-wide transformational |
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| 7 | 7 | | strategies for operational energy, and for other purposes. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 9 | 9 | | MAY3, 2023 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Ms. D |
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| 11 | 11 | | UCKWORTHintroduced the following bill; which was read twice and |
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| 12 | 12 | | referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations |
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| 13 | 13 | | A BILL |
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| 14 | 14 | | To establish a partnership program to assist the military |
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| 15 | 15 | | forces of partner countries in developing and maintaining |
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| 16 | 16 | | military-wide transformational strategies for operational |
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| 17 | 17 | | energy, and for other purposes. |
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| 18 | 18 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 19 | 19 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 20 | 20 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 21 | 21 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Energy Security for 4 |
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| 22 | 22 | | Overseas Troops Act’’. 5 |
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| 26 | 26 | | SEC. 2. ASSISTANCE FOR PARTNER COUNTRIES TO DE-1 |
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| 27 | 27 | | VELOP AND MAINTAIN MILITARY-WIDE 2 |
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| 28 | 28 | | TRANSFORMATIONAL STRATEGIES FOR 3 |
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| 29 | 29 | | OPERATIONAL ENERGY. 4 |
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| 30 | 30 | | (a) E |
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| 31 | 31 | | STABLISHMENT.— 5 |
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| 32 | 32 | | (1) I |
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| 33 | 33 | | N GENERAL.—Not later than January 1, 6 |
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| 34 | 34 | | 2025, the Secretary of Defense shall establish a 7 |
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| 35 | 35 | | partnership program to assist the military forces of 8 |
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| 36 | 36 | | partner countries in developing and maintaining 9 |
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| 37 | 37 | | military-wide transformational strategies for oper-10 |
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| 38 | 38 | | ational energy (in this section referred to as the 11 |
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| 39 | 39 | | ‘‘Program’’). 12 |
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| 40 | 40 | | (2) O |
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| 41 | 41 | | RGANIZATION.—The Assistant Secretary 13 |
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| 42 | 42 | | of Defense for Energy, Installations, and Environ-14 |
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| 43 | 43 | | ment, in consultation with the Under Secretary of 15 |
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| 44 | 44 | | Defense for Policy, the Secretaries of the military 16 |
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| 45 | 45 | | departments, the commanders of the combatant 17 |
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| 46 | 46 | | commands, and any other individual the Secretary of 18 |
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| 47 | 47 | | Defense considers appropriate, shall be responsible 19 |
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| 48 | 48 | | for, and shall oversee, the Program. 20 |
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| 49 | 49 | | (b) O |
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| 50 | 50 | | BJECTIVE.—The objective of the Program is to 21 |
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| 51 | 51 | | promote the readiness of the United States Armed Forces 22 |
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| 52 | 52 | | and the military forces of partner countries for missions 23 |
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| 53 | 53 | | in contested logistics environments by reducing reliance on 24 |
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| 54 | 54 | | fossil fuels and employing more diverse and renewable 25 |
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| 55 | 55 | | operational energy sources so as to enhance energy secu-26 |
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| 58 | 58 | | •S 1437 IS |
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| 59 | 59 | | rity, energy resilience, and energy conservation, reduce 1 |
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| 60 | 60 | | logistical vulnerabilities, and ensure that supply lines are 2 |
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| 61 | 61 | | resilient to climate change, disruptions to energy supplies, 3 |
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| 62 | 62 | | and direct or indirect cyber attacks. 4 |
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| 63 | 63 | | (c) A |
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| 64 | 64 | | CTIVITIES.— 5 |
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| 65 | 65 | | (1) I |
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| 66 | 66 | | N GENERAL.—Under the Program, the 6 |
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| 67 | 67 | | United States Armed Forces and the military forces 7 |
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| 68 | 68 | | of each participating partner country shall, in co-8 |
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| 69 | 69 | | ordination— 9 |
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| 70 | 70 | | (A) establish policies to improve 10 |
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| 71 | 71 | | warfighting capability through energy security 11 |
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| 72 | 72 | | and energy resilience; 12 |
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| 73 | 73 | | (B) integrate efforts to mitigate mutual 13 |
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| 74 | 74 | | contested logistics challenges through the reduc-14 |
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| 75 | 75 | | tion of operational energy demand; 15 |
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| 76 | 76 | | (C) identify and mitigate operational en-16 |
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| 77 | 77 | | ergy challenges presented by any contested lo-17 |
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| 78 | 78 | | gistics environment, including through devel-18 |
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| 79 | 79 | | oping innovative delivery systems, distributed 19 |
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| 80 | 80 | | storage, flexible contracting, and improved au-20 |
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| 81 | 81 | | tomation; 21 |
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| 82 | 82 | | (D) assess and integrate, to the extent 22 |
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| 83 | 83 | | practicable, any technology, including electric, 23 |
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| 84 | 84 | | hydrogen, nuclear, biofuels, and any other sus-24 |
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| 85 | 85 | | tainable fuel technology or renewable energy 25 |
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| 88 | 88 | | •S 1437 IS |
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| 89 | 89 | | technology, that may reduce operational energy 1 |
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| 90 | 90 | | demand in the near term or long term; 2 |
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| 91 | 91 | | (E) assess and consider any infrastructure 3 |
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| 92 | 92 | | investment of allied and partner countries that 4 |
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| 93 | 93 | | may affect operational energy availability in the 5 |
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| 94 | 94 | | event of a conflict with a near-peer adversary; 6 |
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| 95 | 95 | | and 7 |
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| 96 | 96 | | (F) assess and integrate, to the extent 8 |
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| 97 | 97 | | practicable— 9 |
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| 98 | 98 | | (i) any technology that increases sus-10 |
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| 99 | 99 | | tainability and lowers emissions; and 11 |
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| 100 | 100 | | (ii) any practice, technology or strat-12 |
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| 101 | 101 | | egy that reduces negative impacts on 13 |
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| 102 | 102 | | human health. 14 |
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| 103 | 103 | | (2) C |
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| 104 | 104 | | OUNTRY CONSIDERATIONS .—In carrying 15 |
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| 105 | 105 | | out any activity under paragraph (1), to the extent 16 |
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| 106 | 106 | | practicable, the relevant existing and past military 17 |
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| 107 | 107 | | conflicts and cultural practices of, and beliefs preva-18 |
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| 108 | 108 | | lent in, the participating country shall be taken into 19 |
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| 109 | 109 | | account. 20 |
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| 110 | 110 | | (d) S |
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| 111 | 111 | | TRATEGY.— 21 |
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| 112 | 112 | | (1) I |
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| 113 | 113 | | N GENERAL.—Not later than September 22 |
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| 114 | 114 | | 30, 2024, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to 23 |
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| 115 | 115 | | the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate 24 |
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| 119 | 119 | | and the House of Representatives a strategy for the 1 |
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| 120 | 120 | | implementation of the Program. 2 |
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| 121 | 121 | | (2) E |
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| 122 | 122 | | LEMENTS.—The strategy required by 3 |
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| 123 | 123 | | paragraph (1) shall include the following: 4 |
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| 124 | 124 | | (A) A governance structure for the Pro-5 |
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| 125 | 125 | | gram, including— 6 |
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| 126 | 126 | | (i) the officials tasked to oversee the 7 |
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| 127 | 127 | | Program; 8 |
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| 128 | 128 | | (ii) the format of the governing body 9 |
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| 129 | 129 | | of the Program; 10 |
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| 130 | 130 | | (iii) the functions and duties of such 11 |
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| 131 | 131 | | governing body with respect to establishing 12 |
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| 132 | 132 | | and maintaining the Program; and 13 |
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| 133 | 133 | | (iv) mechanisms for coordinating with 14 |
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| 134 | 134 | | partner countries selected to participate in 15 |
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| 135 | 135 | | the Program. 16 |
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| 136 | 136 | | (B) With respect to the selection of part-17 |
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| 137 | 137 | | ner countries initially selected to participate in 18 |
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| 138 | 138 | | the Program— 19 |
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| 139 | 139 | | (i) an identification of each such 20 |
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| 140 | 140 | | country; 21 |
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| 141 | 141 | | (ii) the rationale for selecting each 22 |
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| 142 | 142 | | such country, including a description of— 23 |
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| 143 | 143 | | (I) the benefits to the military 24 |
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| 144 | 144 | | forces of the partner country; and 25 |
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| 148 | 148 | | (II) the benefits to the United 1 |
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| 149 | 149 | | States Armed Forces of participation 2 |
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| 150 | 150 | | by such country; 3 |
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| 151 | 151 | | (iii) a description of any limitation on 4 |
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| 152 | 152 | | the participation of a selected partner 5 |
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| 153 | 153 | | country; and 6 |
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| 154 | 154 | | (iv) any other information the Sec-7 |
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| 155 | 155 | | retary of Defense considers appropriate. 8 |
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| 156 | 156 | | (C) A list of additional authorities, appro-9 |
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| 157 | 157 | | priations, or other congressional support nec-10 |
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| 158 | 158 | | essary to ensure the success of the Program. 11 |
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| 159 | 159 | | (D) A campaign of objectives for the first 12 |
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| 160 | 160 | | three fiscal years of the Program, including— 13 |
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| 161 | 161 | | (i) a description of, and a rationale 14 |
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| 162 | 162 | | for selecting, such objectives; 15 |
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| 163 | 163 | | (ii) an identification of milestones to-16 |
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| 164 | 164 | | ward achieving such objectives; and 17 |
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| 165 | 165 | | (iii) metrics for evaluating success in 18 |
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| 166 | 166 | | achieving such objectives. 19 |
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| 167 | 167 | | (E) A description of opportunities and po-20 |
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| 168 | 168 | | tential timelines for future Program expansion, 21 |
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| 169 | 169 | | as appropriate. 22 |
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| 170 | 170 | | (F) Any other information the Secretary of 23 |
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| 171 | 171 | | Defense considers appropriate. 24 |
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| 175 | 175 | | (3) FORM.—The strategy required by para-1 |
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| 176 | 176 | | graph (1) shall be submitted in unclassified form but 2 |
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| 177 | 177 | | may include a classified annex. 3 |
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| 178 | 178 | | (e) R |
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| 179 | 179 | | EPORT.— 4 |
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| 180 | 180 | | (1) I |
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| 181 | 181 | | N GENERAL.—Not later than September 5 |
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| 182 | 182 | | 20, 2025, and annually thereafter, the Secretary of 6 |
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| 183 | 183 | | Defense shall submit to the congressional defense 7 |
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| 184 | 184 | | committees (as defined in section 101 of title 10, 8 |
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| 185 | 185 | | United States Code) a report on the Program. 9 |
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| 186 | 186 | | (2) E |
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| 187 | 187 | | LEMENTS.—Each report required by para-10 |
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| 188 | 188 | | graph (1) shall include the following: 11 |
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| 189 | 189 | | (A) A narrative summary of activities con-12 |
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| 190 | 190 | | ducted as part of the Program during the pre-13 |
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| 191 | 191 | | ceding fiscal year. 14 |
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| 192 | 192 | | (B) Except in the case of the initial report, 15 |
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| 193 | 193 | | an assessment of progress toward the objectives 16 |
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| 194 | 194 | | established for the preceding fiscal year de-17 |
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| 195 | 195 | | scribed in the preceding report under this sub-18 |
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| 196 | 196 | | section using the metrics established in such re-19 |
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| 197 | 197 | | port. 20 |
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| 198 | 198 | | (C) A campaign of objectives for the three 21 |
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| 199 | 199 | | fiscal years following the date of submission of 22 |
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| 200 | 200 | | the report, including— 23 |
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| 201 | 201 | | (i) a description of, and a rationale 24 |
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| 202 | 202 | | for selecting, such objectives; 25 |
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| 207 | 207 | | ward achieving such objectives; and 2 |
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| 208 | 208 | | (iii) metrics for evaluating success in 3 |
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| 209 | 209 | | achieving such objectives. 4 |
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| 210 | 210 | | (D) A description of opportunities and po-5 |
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| 211 | 211 | | tential timelines for future Program expansion, 6 |
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| 212 | 212 | | as appropriate. 7 |
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| 213 | 213 | | (E) Any other information the Secretary of 8 |
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| 214 | 214 | | Defense considers appropriate. 9 |
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| 215 | 215 | | (3) F |
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| 216 | 216 | | ORM.—Each report required by paragraph 10 |
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| 217 | 217 | | (1) shall be submitted in unclassified form but may 11 |
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| 218 | 218 | | include a classified annex. 12 |
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| 219 | 219 | | (f) T |
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| 220 | 220 | | ERMINATION.—The Program shall terminate on 13 |
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| 221 | 221 | | December 31, 2029. 14 |
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| 222 | 222 | | (g) C |
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| 223 | 223 | | ONTESTED LOGISTICSENVIRONMENT DE-15 |
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| 224 | 224 | | FINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘contested logistics en-16 |
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| 225 | 225 | | vironment’’ means an environment in which the United 17 |
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| 226 | 226 | | States Armed Forces or the military forces of a partner 18 |
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| 227 | 227 | | country engage in conflict with an adversary that presents 19 |
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| 228 | 228 | | challenges in all domains and directly targets logistics op-20 |
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| 229 | 229 | | erations, facilities, and activities in the United States, 21 |
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| 230 | 230 | | abroad, or in transit from one location to the other. 22 |
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